My God, what has happened to the bathroom @ Crocodile Cafe. I don't remember it being this... white before.

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That car is on fire.

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Mist from the air vents. This plane is like a Scottish moor.

POLITICS IN ITS LOWEST FORM

My sister had recent occasion to visit the small town of Hampton, South Carolina. This fantastic article reinforces the maxim of stakes being small in local politics. Allegations include embezzlement, forgery and violence:

VARNVILLE - In one of the most financially strapped towns in Hampton County, questions have arisen concerning whether Mayor Henry Fields, Jr. charged excessive amounts of gasoline to Varnville taxpayers for personal use, or if there is a very busy forger in town.

Multiple sources have alleged that Fields has been charging costly amounts of fuel to the town for personal use, including the transporting of a family member to school at USC Beaufort twice a week.

Town fuel receipts, obtained last week after The Guardian presented a S.C. Freedom of Information Act request, show what appears to be Fields' signature on charges totaling close to $2,000 over the past 10 months.

Fields denies those are his charges and denies any wrongdoing.

"That's a damn lie, and I mean it. I'll put my hand on any Bible and I'll swear to it on my momma. I've been on Council going on 25 years and I've never stole from the damn town and I never will. That's the God and Heaven truth."

During a Tuesday interview with The Guardian, Fields said that morning was the first time he has seen those gas receipts or the newspaper's FOIA request. Yet during open session of the May Town Council meeting Fields discussed the request with Councilman Adam Major and said "I don't like it, but we've got to give it to them."

Fields claimed he is the victim of a conspiracy.

"It's a damn conspiracy ... Somebody is trying to railroad me and I've got an idea who it is ... There's a bunch of people around here that got grudges against me, and one councilman, too, I know that for a fact ... Why they're trying to hurt me and bring me down I don't know. There's nothing I did wrong ... I'm going to get me a lawyer and get behind this ... This is a damn bunch of bull and I'm very upset about it."

Fields added that he did not sign all of those gas tickets and that it was the work of a forger.

What of the allegations of some kind of physical violence?

"My only regret is that I didn't run over his a--," said Fields. "But I probably would have went to jail."

My word. Anything else?

In an unrelated matter, a SLED spokesperson confirmed last week that the agency is investigating another matter pertaining to the Town of Varnville, but would not elaborate.

The whole article is pretty fun.

On this and every Memorial Day, Lt. Colonel James D. Miller honors the fallen Union heroes of the Battle of Aiken. At least someone in the South pays respects to the non-traitors who died in the Civil War.

DADDY WANTS TO FUCK

Dennis Hoppper 1936-2010



"Rest in Peace" is hardly appropriate. May Daddy want to fuck forever.

Um...

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THE LOST FINALE

I thought it was good. 9 out of 10. It's a shame that the entire negative point comes from the clumsiness of the last few minutes, but it was a winner episode all the way until then. While giving most of the cast some well-earned curtain calls, the show paid off the relationships, and paid off the stories that were cut short. I thought it was well played for Aaron to be Kate's constant, and hilarious that use of his legs was Locke's. It was silly where it needed to be and sad where it needed to be. And it left me wanting more. Yeah, it could have been better, but it couldn't have been much better. God help me, I'll quote Alan Moore: "Not without it problems, I'll confess; but then, without them, could perfection be?" Lost's occasional crappiness was part of its maddening charm, and it wouldn't have been an episode of Lost without some disappointment. I cared about the characters, and was moved by their fates. Even the Island's -- the Island was going to end up at the bottom of the ocean eventually. And there was something about having to earn enlightenment even in the afterlife that resonated with my uncompleted minor in Indian Philosophy.

I was watching in a bar, and it said something about the episode that even Kate was met with cheers at one point. Usually she gets boos.

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So odd to see obscure Seventies superheroine Ms. Marvel, in her original costume no less.

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A mysterious ugly shirt is laying in front of my door.

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FRANK FRAZETTA 1928-2010

I Found this odd list tucked into a draft I was editing. That is not my handwriting. Who is making this list? what do checks mean versus crosses? What has happened to Mateo, Piper, Ian and the rest?

Holy shit, the Fun Forest is gone.

Metropolis Trailer (2010 Re-release)

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Just laying there

Overheard at the Aiken Steeplechase:

Overheard at the Aiken Steeplechase: 'I don't cuss at her. I don't hit her.'

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"Alex Chilton played a set before you got here tonight,” Ronnie [Lane] said. “He’s more alive than you are."

REPEATING HISTORY AS FARCE

Mark Steyn makes a point in this Corner post that reminds me to develop my theory that we're in a political cycle of repeated history as farce. If the right-winger's Sixties were the Nineties, that means that we're in the Eighties, and facing an Obama electoral sweep over Palin in 2012. No doubt Steyn sees things much the same way, except he probably thinks Obama is George Bush (the first one) in this scenario. Make sense?

Diaper on the sidewalk.

Is that really his name?